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Basin and Range Carbonate Aquifer, and known by many names, is an important and unique aquifer in that it covers several western states and basins. Groundwater flows through fractured carbonate rock beneath basins and leads to many regional springs and water features, like Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge and the springs at Death Valley.
California aquifers, excerpted from map in Ground Water Atlas of the United States (USGS, 2000): Lavender is "other" for "rocks that generally yield less than 10 gal/min to wells"; dark green-blue (3) are the California coastal basin aquifers, bright-turquoise blue (7) is the Central Valley aquifer system, flat cobalt-blue (1) down south is Basin and Range aquifers
The Basin and Range Province is a vast physiographic region covering much of the inland Western United States and northwestern Mexico. It is defined by unique basin and range topography , characterized by abrupt changes in elevation, alternating between narrow faulted mountain chains and flat arid valleys or basins.
Snowpack in the high mountains west of Snake Valley contributes to the (relatively) large amount of groundwater available in the area. Snake Valley is noted for a water project involving the Las Vegas Valley, [3] that would target the underlying Basin and Range Carbonate Aquifer, an aquifer that supplies local agriculture and is a relatively large source of water for this region.
Basin and range topography has alternating parallel mountain ranges and valleys Basin and range topography is characterized by alternating parallel mountain ranges and valleys. It is a result of crustal extension due to mantle upwelling , gravitational collapse, crustal thickening, or relaxation of confining stresses.
Map of the Tularosa Basin (light blue) and its landmarks, in southern New Mexico and West Texas, U.S. White gypsum sand and Yucca (Yucca elata) plants, in Tularosa Basin at White Sands National Park. The Tularosa Basin is a graben basin in the Basin and Range Province and within the Chihuahuan Desert , east of the Rio Grande in southern New ...
An aquifer is an underground layer of water ... but can range between 0.3 and 10 m (1 and 33 ft). ... (to the flatter parts of the basin or overbank areas—sometimes ...
Basin and range topography, type of topography typical of the Basin and Range Province; Basin and Range National Monument, in Lincoln and Nye counties in southeastern Nevada, within the Basin and Range Province; Basin and Range a book on geology written by John McPhee published in 1981, the first book of what would become the Annals of the ...